Community Compassion Center of Jonesboro

While we graded this nursing home incredibly poorly overall, it earned a relatively impressive inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our more favorable grades in that area with a B+. Inspection scores are tied to several datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are a key item to look for on these inspections. Most importantly, you should avoid facilities with severe deficiencies linked to risks to resident well being. Amazingly, this was one of the few nursing homes in the country that had no deficiencies whatsoever on its inspection report. This is very impressive. Not having any deficiencies is this nursing home's best achievement.

Sadly, this facility received an F for its short-term care grade. In calculating our short-term care scores, we size up the facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other types of therapists. This score is more often than not a solid assessment of the facility's rehabilitation. Considering its abysmal grade in this area, we weren't stunned to learn that this facility offered far fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most nursing homes. Lastly, we assessed the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This was not a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. At most facilities, about half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.

Unfortunately, we gave this facility an F for its long-term care score. Nursing homes that don't fare well in this category often don't provide as much nursing care and also may be struggling in a few of the areas of routine medical care we assessed. After assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination records. Unfortunately, it does not appear that this facility submitted information on its vaccination levels. Surprisingly, this nursing home actually fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best score in this category.

The final category we looked at is nursing. This facility was given a rock bottom grade of F in that area. We analyzed the qualifications of nurses working for the facility, in addition to the quantity of time those nurses worked with patients, in computing our grade in this area. With just 0.2 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis, this nursing home's nurse staffing levels were far below the national average. Finally, to round out our nursing grade, we turn to some quality-focused statistics in rounding out our nursing scores. Specifically, we look at the percent of patients who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these data points as predictive measures of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.